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Microwave Method Turns Shrimp Shell Waste Into Wound-Healing Chitosan
Every year, the seafood industry discards an estimated 6 to 8 million metric tons of shrimp shells, a calcium- and...
Viruses Armed With Calcium Shield Crops From Fire Blight and Black Rot
Bacteriophages, the viruses that hunt and kill bacteria, are edging closer to becoming practical weapons against two of the world’s...
Nano-silica turns industrial red mud waste into stronger, greener cement
Every year, the global aluminium industry churns out more than 150 million tonnes of red mud, a highly alkaline sludge...
Pearl Millet Hybrid Packs High Yields and Heavy Doses of Iron and Zinc Into a Single Grain
On the sun-baked experimental farms around Jaipur, in India’s Rajasthan state, plant breeders have quietly achieved something that nutrition scientists...
Temporal Muscle Thickness Does Not Predict Survival in Older Brain Cancer Patients
A thick temple may look like a trivial detail on a head scan, but in recent years radiologists have taken...
New Real-Time Index Promises to Catch Drifting Virtual Anatomy During Brain Surgery
Neurosurgeons working with mixed reality headsets may soon have a way to know—moment by moment—whether the virtual anatomy floating over...
Ionic Clusters Take Center Stage as Building Blocks for Porous Organic Salts
Crystalline materials with permanent porosity have reshaped modern chemistry, offering designers a way to build sponges at the molecular scale...
AI Model Predicts Biochar Soil Fertility With Unprecedented Accuracy
A team of researchers has unveiled a machine learning framework capable of predicting one of the most important properties of...
New Flocculants and Demulsifiers Could Transform How the Oil Industry Separates Water From Crude
Every barrel of crude oil that reaches a refinery has first had to fight its way out of an intimate...
Solomon’s Seal Polysaccharide Targets Fatty Liver Disease in Diabetes
A natural sugar molecule purified from the rhizome of a traditional Chinese medicinal herb may offer a new way to...
Scientists Build a Gene-Based Survival Model for Lung Cancer Using a Newly Defined Cell Death Pathway
Lung adenocarcinoma, the most common form of lung cancer worldwide, remains one of the most difficult malignancies to predict and...
AI Matches Human Experts in Mapping Axons on Century-Old Silver Stains
Neuroscientists have unveiled a deep learning system that can automatically trace and quantify the tangled web of nerve fibers visible...
Magnetic Graphene Hybrid Lets Silicone Films Block Interference While Staying Flexible
Every smartphone, wearable sensor, and implanted medical device now competes in a world saturated with radio waves, and the electromagnetic...
Twenty Years of Autoimmune Hepatitis Research Reveal a Sharp Shift Toward the Microbiome
Autoimmune hepatitis has long been one of the most puzzling chronic liver diseases in clinical medicine, a condition in which...
Newly Identified GPCR-Like Protein TM184C Controls Cellular Exchange and Autophagy
A protein called TM184C has emerged as an unexpected player in two of the most fundamental processes in cellular life:...
Thirty Years of Manure and Fertilizer Reveal Bottom-Up Rules That Reshape the Soil Food Web in Rice–Wheat Fields
Beneath every rice paddy and wheat field lies an intricate economy of organisms, from bacteria and fungi to nematodes, mites,...
Antibody-Drug Conjugate Hits Recommended Phase 3 Dose in EGFR-Mutated Lung Cancer
An investigational antibody-drug conjugate that simultaneously targets two of the most important growth-driving proteins in lung cancer has delivered encouraging...
Simple Ultrasound Test Slashes Brain Death Protocol Time in Brazilian ICU
Declaring a patient brain dead is one of the most consequential procedures in modern medicine, and in Brazil it cannot...
Locked Fault Patches and Low b-Values Point to Strong Earthquake Hotspots on the Ordos Margin
Beneath the arid expanses of north-central China, the faults that bound the western edge of the Ordos block are quietly...
Wireless ‘WILD’ Device Records and Steers Brain Activity in Freely Roaming Mice
For decades, neuroscientists have faced an uncomfortable trade-off: the equipment that lets them eavesdrop on the brain has too often...